As a dedicated weight lifter, my home machines have been used exclusively as clothes racks for years. This is one hack that works for a few other sports as well.
I agree wholeheartedly with these hacks. I like the two wheeled tour bus part especially. We go slow enough on our bikes (compared to whipping by in our cars and trains and such) that we see things we might have missed otherwise. That old house with a plaque out front.. didn't see the plaque every day driving by in a car, did we? Come to find out someone historically famous lived there. I was planning a route one time and came to find out Corrie Ten Boom is interred in the county I live (Orange County, California). History all around us and we missed it...until we rode by on two wheels. Another thing we do on bikes that we miss in cars is find interesting stuff lying there dropped in the road. I found a nice Gerber knife one time, a cell phone I was able to run down and get back to it's owner, a poor doggie I was able to retrieve the collar from and give some closure to his humans. Cyclin' (love your accent, Manon) is the best. It's a definite stress reliever alone, then all the cool stuff. Anyway, Cheers.. good video 🙂
When you discuss WW2 refugees and bikes, it's hard not to think of Gino Bartali and his heroic acts to save many would be victims from the hands of the Nazis. Has there been a GCN+ documentary about him yet? If not, please consider it. His story is so inspirational!
Cycling is a diabetes medication accelerator. Without cycling, I use much more insulin and my blood sugar control is far worse. Cycling is a life hack, because it extends my life and keeps me healthy both physically and diabetes-wise. That was my hubby, Doug. For me, cycling is my anti-anxiety, anti-depressant medication! Cycling is such a great way to get out of your head and appreciate all that is good in life.
My god you guys have good chemistry together - I just love your vids - you should just call it the Connor and Manon show and bring out weekly videos like this. 👏
Life Hack Remix: Always skip leg day. “Well, since I’ve gone riding four times this week I don’t really need to do deadlifts. It will mess up my recovery for my club ride.”
Me: * Puts on my club jersey and goes for a summer morning ride * Every old person I see: “you’re a professional cyclist….aren’t you 🤔” Me: “Yes…yes I am”
Conor giving an off-topic lengthy history lesson to Manon about WWII and Portugal's neutrality made me think that Conor is GCN's version of James May from Top Gear. 😁
I feel the "dry your hair" bit totally missed the opportunity to show Manon in "Cousin It" mode with hair flowing out of her helmet in all directions. That would have been funny.
Everyday is leg day for sure with cycling but one should do additional exercises/stretches to keep a balanced and healthy body Going to the gym to do some heavy sets for your legs will have you flying in no time, it also keeps things comfy when the weather is too tough to ride
I was taking my new gravel bike for a muddy spin in the forest the other day and got mistaken for a cyclocross rider. It made me feel like I a had half an idea of what I was doing (aside from blagging it)!
Re Tour De France comment. I was riding with my cycling club friends in South Carolina last summer. I was wearing a cycling jersey that my wife bought for me that had the State of Alaska name on flag on it. Three blokes in a truck pulled up next to us and asked if I'd ridden my bike down from Alaska. I said, "of course" and the guy turned to his friend and said "you owe me $10". Not Tour De France, but still kind of famous...
A, thanks but surely eating whatever you want and as much as you like when training is fine for me! However, the best life 'hack' from cycling is my journey to work always takes the same time (plus 20 mins extra in bed) on bike. Cars, buses, trains are just soooo unpredictable!
In this winter i started to dry my jacket for xc skiing on handlebar of my road bike, which installed on smart trainer. I can approve this tip for 100%)
I've used my bike to escape many social situations. Including when someone tries to sell me insurance. Wind's usually loud enough they give up. I use my bike as my main vehicle so I can have it with me everywhere. Idk about tennis but I've definitely brought my badminton stuff with me on my bike. Leg day every day. Oh and if you mainly use a mountain bike like me you can get down stairs faster. Bike may be expensive but I recently found out how expensive public transport is. My bike would only cover like 3 years? And I live near where I need to go.
I remember when I first got into cycling a few years ago at 14 , everyone thought I was in the tdf ,my earliest memory of cycling is racing some guy on an sworks on my spare parts bin fixie (in fairly sure he let me win)
Cycling life hack. Competition itch getting scratched without actually entering a race. When two or more cyclist get together the inevitable upping of the pace and “race” to the top of hills help ease my need for formal racing.
been using my bike as a drying rack for years. Since they're mounted on the wall inside, it's where we hang all our delicate clothes we don't want to dry in the Aussie Sun.
While the bike doesn't use fossil fuels and doesn't generate any greenhouse gases, we ourselves do burn quite a lot of fuel in the form of food. And we also produce extra carbon dioxide while riding!
Drawing in new viewers to connect with their longer, awesome content? Paying the bills? Surely, you know that companies have to make money to pay all these people to continue making us wonderful content. Right? Right??
The dry your hair bit reminded me of aninstance when I was out. A woman complimented my hair and asked how I had it looking that way, back when I had hair. My response was to wash it dry it, which got nods of mild impatience, followed with "Then you take a pushbike. And occasionally the wind blows it into a shape people like." That was the end of the conversation. I will confess I wasn't wearinga lid back then, largely because the testing standards were based on impact on top only. Not something I would do now and gladly standards have improved.
Excuse for wearing bright young clothes even when old. Warm gloves for use even when not on the bike. Zen and the art of bicycle maintenance. Plenty of time to chant a mantra -- I do when I am on my bike and it helps for being noticed. Keep bones healthy and strong by bashing them on tarmac from time to time. Improve situational awareness. Anger management or perhaps just anger release -- I have ditched my bells and buzzers and just shout. Self observation (leading to less desire to eat) both due to the Lycra and the self-observational low-down cycling pose, looking at ones legs. Low-down goes faster, and encourages belly loss because you can't do it with a belly. Excuse for purchasing new clothes, especially trousers, when tainted with chain gunk. Excuse for primate crotch display -- Lycra again. Excuse for carrying a defensive pump. Helmet headlight useful off the bike too. Always a pocket full of rechargeable 18650 batteries in my case at least. Gain a familiarity with cheap online Chinese suppliers (Aliexpress). Learnt how to work with carbon fibre. A certain notoriety, familiarity, and even trust with police. Neck-warmer doubles as corona mask, gloves, and visor likewise reduce risk of infection. Make friends. Get to know the short cuts. Traffic jams almost cease to exist. Impress with your bike even if you look like an old fart. Always have a familiar to Instagram -- your bike -- especially if you are an old fart and don't want to take selfies. Bottle cage is wine bottle size -- thanks to the French? Impress people with the number of squats you can do?
I do use it to dry my clothes when I commute to work....I change into my work clothes and leave my cycling clothes on the bike so they are dry when I ride back in the evening. Head shaved, so that hack is useless. :)
I like to use my really really really loud air horn to scare the ever living daylights out of auto drivers who I don't like. Of course, I am an auto driver too. But I, not them, have got the air horn .
I was watching the whole video and thinking to myself: wait a minute, i recognize this landscape, this is Portugal, it has to be, and then BAM, connor says they’re in Portugal. Btw, What are you up to in Algarve? Are you here for Volta ao Algarve? Enjoy!!
Not going to lie from this angle those squats looked more like bad good mornings than squats, sorry Conner, but like they say everyday is back day for professional strongmen.
@@nightsfalling cyclists in a race who don't place near the top and aren't well known by their names on TV, but usually hang around near the back of the peloton. They are fairly fit but are unlikely to win anything - usually finishing in hundredth place or more.
As a dedicated weight lifter, my home machines have been used exclusively as clothes racks for years. This is one hack that works for a few other sports as well.
🤣🤣🤣
Life hack: while wearing a helmet, nobody can know exactly how bald you actually are.
Then you take it off and your head's a sunburned checkerboard.
@@craigscott3133 SUNSCREEN
Modern day helmets with their aero and ventilation holes...it is obvious how bald I am...
It's when you forgot sunscreen on your noggin, and folks can tell what model helmet you wear from the scorch marks!
Nobody who sees me in my Lycra thinks I’ve done the Tour De France, especially when I’m in the lowest gear puffing up a moderate hill.
*sigh*..... same
Ok, who let the stoner intern write the script? Love it 😂
I agree wholeheartedly with these hacks. I like the two wheeled tour bus part especially. We go slow enough on our bikes (compared to whipping by in our cars and trains and such) that we see things we might have missed otherwise. That old house with a plaque out front.. didn't see the plaque every day driving by in a car, did we? Come to find out someone historically famous lived there. I was planning a route one time and came to find out Corrie Ten Boom is interred in the county I live (Orange County, California). History all around us and we missed it...until we rode by on two wheels. Another thing we do on bikes that we miss in cars is find interesting stuff lying there dropped in the road. I found a nice Gerber knife one time, a cell phone I was able to run down and get back to it's owner, a poor doggie I was able to retrieve the collar from and give some closure to his humans. Cyclin' (love your accent, Manon) is the best. It's a definite stress reliever alone, then all the cool stuff. Anyway, Cheers.. good video 🙂
Plus on a bike you can whip a U TURN instantly and go see what you passed.
Makes it 100x more likely you'll turn around to see something.
Definately use the indoor trainer as an extra drying rack when we run out of space and you better believe I point out how handy it is to my wife
"We should probably get another one..."
Simply it's a great way to exercise while getting from here to there. It's a workout, sightseeing tour, and transportation all in one.
Preaching to the choir, but cycling is the best!
When you discuss WW2 refugees and bikes, it's hard not to think of Gino Bartali and his heroic acts to save many would be victims from the hands of the Nazis. Has there been a GCN+ documentary about him yet? If not, please consider it. His story is so inspirational!
Just looked him up, seems like quite a life he lived!
@@gcn Absolutely! He quite literally saved many lives with his bicycle!
Loving these silly videos, keep them coming!
Oh, and the funny looks you get pulling up to the drive through pharmacy window on your bike.. PRICELESS 😀
Cycling is a diabetes medication accelerator. Without cycling, I use much more insulin and my blood sugar control is far worse. Cycling is a life hack, because it extends my life and keeps me healthy both physically and diabetes-wise. That was my hubby, Doug. For me, cycling is my anti-anxiety, anti-depressant medication! Cycling is such a great way to get out of your head and appreciate all that is good in life.
My god you guys have good chemistry together - I just love your vids - you should just call it the Connor and Manon show and bring out weekly videos like this. 👏
The excuse one I've used on multiple occasions. Very handy.
Being able to eat copious amounts of food compared to my non cycling associates and still remain lean 😁😎
That was true.....and then I turned 40.
Life Hack Remix: Always skip leg day. “Well, since I’ve gone riding four times this week I don’t really need to do deadlifts. It will mess up my recovery for my club ride.”
Me: * Puts on my club jersey and goes for a summer morning ride *
Every old person I see: “you’re a professional cyclist….aren’t you 🤔”
Me: “Yes…yes I am”
Greatest thing about cycling is watching GCN videos
I always answered the TdF question by asking if they were playing in the Super Bowl.
Are you in Portugal? 😍
Enjoy the good weather and the good food 🇵🇹
Cake! Eating as much cake as you like. That's my life hack 👍
Conor giving an off-topic lengthy history lesson to Manon about WWII and Portugal's neutrality made me think that Conor is GCN's version of James May from Top Gear. 😁
I feel the "dry your hair" bit totally missed the opportunity to show Manon in "Cousin It" mode with hair flowing out of her helmet in all directions. That would have been funny.
Everyday is leg day for sure with cycling but one should do additional exercises/stretches to keep a balanced and healthy body
Going to the gym to do some heavy sets for your legs will have you flying in no time, it also keeps things comfy when the weather is too tough to ride
THIS!
Cycling uses such minimal range of motion.
If you want strong legs, do deep squats at the gym with weights. You WILL fee the difference!
Cycling is more so for the heart, but legs to a smaller extent
I'm cycling to college now so saving money on travel.
I was taking my new gravel bike for a muddy spin in the forest the other day and got mistaken for a cyclocross rider. It made me feel like I a had half an idea of what I was doing (aside from blagging it)!
Thank you for mentioning palestine. A country i would love to cycle trough as it is my familys homeland. Sadly we got expelled for being palestiniens.
Re Tour De France comment. I was riding with my cycling club friends in South Carolina last summer. I was wearing a cycling jersey that my wife bought for me that had the State of Alaska name on flag on it. Three blokes in a truck pulled up next to us and asked if I'd ridden my bike down from Alaska. I said, "of course" and the guy turned to his friend and said "you owe me $10". Not Tour De France, but still kind of famous...
Did you ride from Alaska though? We've got $10 on the line...
Great video! Cycling is great in so many ways. We all know it.
A, thanks but surely eating whatever you want and as much as you like when training is fine for me! However, the best life 'hack' from cycling is my journey to work always takes the same time (plus 20 mins extra in bed) on bike. Cars, buses, trains are just soooo unpredictable!
Y’all hit the most important ones. My fav is the tour bus. ❤️
In this winter i started to dry my jacket for xc skiing on handlebar of my road bike, which installed on smart trainer. I can approve this tip for 100%)
I've used my bike to escape many social situations. Including when someone tries to sell me insurance. Wind's usually loud enough they give up.
I use my bike as my main vehicle so I can have it with me everywhere.
Idk about tennis but I've definitely brought my badminton stuff with me on my bike.
Leg day every day.
Oh and if you mainly use a mountain bike like me you can get down stairs faster.
Bike may be expensive but I recently found out how expensive public transport is. My bike would only cover like 3 years? And I live near where I need to go.
So many great life-hacks!
On our century ride last summer bunch of us stopped by for lunch at an Amish shop in full lycra. The look on their faces was priceless!
Automatic like for every video in Portugal 😀
I remember when I first got into cycling a few years ago at 14 , everyone thought I was in the tdf ,my earliest memory of cycling is racing some guy on an sworks on my spare parts bin fixie (in fairly sure he let me win)
Cycling life hack. Competition itch getting scratched without actually entering a race. When two or more cyclist get together the inevitable upping of the pace and “race” to the top of hills help ease my need for formal racing.
Whenever someone on a Zwift group ride asks if this is a group ride or a race. The answer is "yes."
I’m always one of the fliers on Zwift group rides, I just can’t control myself.
@@kevin._.farren it's okay. This is a safe place to confess.
Excuse me, are you in the Tour de France?
No mate I did La Vuelta instead!
Great entertaining video…. And #hacks
But seriously, enjoying nature and staying away from the screen is a great blessing!
been using my bike as a drying rack for years. Since they're mounted on the wall inside, it's where we hang all our delicate clothes we don't want to dry in the Aussie Sun.
Very resourceful!
We need a photo in the Hack / Bodge section :)
Me too 🤣
brilliant!
I am a simple man. I see Manon on thumbnail, I click for lovely accent and listen.
i love manon
Manon ... i put my phone into the frame bag to get the ride route :-))))
My dreams keep getting better all the time!
Two Wheel Tour Bus!
Adventures await!
While the bike doesn't use fossil fuels and doesn't generate any greenhouse gases, we ourselves do burn quite a lot of fuel in the form of food. And we also produce extra carbon dioxide while riding!
And Methane Gas
what was the point of this video lol
Drawing in new viewers to connect with their longer, awesome content? Paying the bills? Surely, you know that companies have to make money to pay all these people to continue making us wonderful content. Right? Right??
@@StevenSkoczen wow you think i dont know. just saying 10 useful hacks would have been better
Have you got any more cycling life hacks?
You’ve got an excuse to skip arm and ab day at the gym.
connect the bicycle to a generator and create your own power.
Cycling life hack never having to feel guilty for eating a donut with your cup of coffee when you get to the office after cycling to the office.
I wish people would mistake me for a Tour de France rider.🤩
The dry your hair bit reminded me of aninstance when I was out. A woman complimented my hair and asked how I had it looking that way, back when I had hair.
My response was to wash it dry it, which got nods of mild impatience, followed with "Then you take a pushbike. And occasionally the wind blows it into a shape people like." That was the end of the conversation.
I will confess I wasn't wearinga lid back then, largely because the testing standards were based on impact on top only. Not something I would do now and gladly standards have improved.
i tought this will be an informative one... :DDD
Life Hack...Spend your money on a good bike, and you have no money left for drugs, or beer, or cigarettes, or soda...or anything!
Had to double check the calendar. I was beginning to think it's already April 1. Haha!
I want to drink the same water as the person who as written this vídeo 🍺
Finest quality "mineral water"
Are you from Tour de France? It happened to me 😀 I said 'I'm from Vuelta' and got a confused look 😂
Go to places to visit breweries and try some of their craft brews.
Great video guys 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
Fun. Thanks
Those first 2 felt more like an April fools joke
Cyclists never skip leg-day, but we have spaghetti arms...
Not if you ride on the drops. Planks all day.
**checks to see if it's April 1st**
Excuse for wearing bright young clothes even when old.
Warm gloves for use even when not on the bike.
Zen and the art of bicycle maintenance.
Plenty of time to chant a mantra -- I do when I am on my bike and it helps for being noticed.
Keep bones healthy and strong by bashing them on tarmac from time to time.
Improve situational awareness.
Anger management or perhaps just anger release -- I have ditched my bells and buzzers and just shout.
Self observation (leading to less desire to eat) both due to the Lycra and the self-observational low-down cycling pose, looking at ones legs.
Low-down goes faster, and encourages belly loss because you can't do it with a belly.
Excuse for purchasing new clothes, especially trousers, when tainted with chain gunk.
Excuse for primate crotch display -- Lycra again.
Excuse for carrying a defensive pump.
Helmet headlight useful off the bike too.
Always a pocket full of rechargeable 18650 batteries in my case at least.
Gain a familiarity with cheap online Chinese suppliers (Aliexpress).
Learnt how to work with carbon fibre.
A certain notoriety, familiarity, and even trust with police.
Neck-warmer doubles as corona mask, gloves, and visor likewise reduce risk of infection.
Make friends.
Get to know the short cuts.
Traffic jams almost cease to exist.
Impress with your bike even if you look like an old fart.
Always have a familiar to Instagram -- your bike -- especially if you are an old fart and don't want to take selfies.
Bottle cage is wine bottle size -- thanks to the French?
Impress people with the number of squats you can do?
I do use it to dry my clothes when I commute to work....I change into my work clothes and leave my cycling clothes on the bike so they are dry when I ride back in the evening.
Head shaved, so that hack is useless. :)
Is it already April?
❤️ manon
Humour 😂🍀
Brilliant 🤣🍻
They assume you're in the TDF. Around here, they assume you're a wannabe. Then again most around here in lycra are middle-aged.
That is so funny my hair is past my shoulders if i did this i would be riding blind lol.
With all that expensive gears and kits you are buying leaves you with no money to buy drugs and other unnecessary harmful things.
The only people who haven’t heard of the Tour are the Sentenelese and other uncontacted tribes
I like to use my really really really loud air horn to scare the ever living daylights out of auto drivers who I don't like. Of course, I am an auto driver too. But I, not them, have got the air horn .
I was watching the whole video and thinking to myself: wait a minute, i recognize this landscape, this is Portugal, it has to be, and then BAM, connor says they’re in Portugal.
Btw, What are you up to in Algarve? Are you here for Volta ao Algarve? Enjoy!!
Cycling is just scrolling through the countryside.
Portugal 💪💪💪💪
May or may not be extra room in your checked luggage by stuffing clothes in your bike box. Don’t tell anyone 🤫
Not going to lie from this angle those squats looked more like bad good mornings than squats, sorry Conner, but like they say everyday is back day for professional strongmen.
Riding a bike still creates green house gases, technically. Riders still produce methane, lol.
running out of ideas much ?
It's true. I became famous due to cycling among our college students
Thanks for mentioning PALESTINE in the history lesson! From land to sea, Palestine will be free!!!
Idea of a hair dryer speaks to me.
I was fully expecting a serious video XD
Cycling can also be a healthy way to eat candies.
Haha, thats one upside!
I could only get to 3:32 and stopped. All I can say is… Happy Days, Season 5, Episode 91…
You don't feel guilty for eating cake 🤘
While you dry your hair on bike you get swet - shower again, vicious circle ;-)
those were some qualtify life hacks and no life bodges
Hahaha that’s true, people always ask me if I have been in the tour d’France 😂 and a true to some other points mentioned.
What do you tell them when they ask?
@@gcn women are not allowed, and they are surprised to learn that. 🤷🏻♀️
@@nightsfalling I didn't know that but assumed women didn't enter because they'd just become pack fodder when racing the best of men.
@@TimpBizkit I don’t know what is a “pack fodder”
@@nightsfalling cyclists in a race who don't place near the top and aren't well known by their names on TV, but usually hang around near the back of the peloton. They are fairly fit but are unlikely to win anything - usually finishing in hundredth place or more.
That fringe is all teenagers in 2006-2009
You know who assumes that any random road cyclist has competed in the TdF? Nooooooooobody.
Hi
Was not expecting this but what a great vid🤣🤣
Where in Portugal?
YES Conor calling it the correct name of Palestine!!
Quite a few of my friends unfortunately create a lot of methane gas while riding which cannot be good for the environment 😂
🤔 Hmm, scraping the barrel for content here, GCN.
For some reason people shout 'banker' when they see me in lycra. Not sure what that's all about.
Eh, carbon fiber isn't exactly an eco material 😂 that being said I'm not giving up my carbon bikes🤷♂️
You obviously save on fuel costs by driving less.